Quote Originally Posted by Bob635 View Post
Mark,

Thanks for your accurate description that no BTTF Delorean is Truely "screen accurate" because each A, B, C car was slightly different. And that most Time Machines look new.

I was very impressed with the work done on the A car restoration, but as you know, even this car is not restored to "exactly" how it was used in the movie. (e.g. numbered months.)

One question, I pose to people about the "screen accurate" car. Did the movie give the illusion that the BTTF Delorean was a hot rod engine? Clearly, the exhaust tone was NOT a PRV engine.
So should a "screen accurate" car have a hot rod engine? The "Delorean" in BTTF III was a hot rod engine -albeit a VW- BUT is was not a PRV. So exactly what is a "screen accurate" Time Machine?

What really bothers me with this situation is that there are certain Time Machine owners, who rent their car, and who are going around "bad mouthing" other people's time machines- claiming that theirs is the only "screen accurate" car, making them huge amounts of money and not sharing this benefit with other D owners who had the dedication to do this conversion.

After all these years, since 1995, when I negotiated with Universal Studios to get the permission for people to build Time Machines, without getting sued, now I hear of serious infighting amongst different Time Machine owners. I negotiated this permission for everyone to share, NOT FOR CERTAIN people to hoard.

As for the copies of the invoices for parts, these came from Kevin Pike, way back in the early 1990s, when I was researching and obtaining parts to build the first Time Machine - hot rod- Delorean.

As you know, 2 years ago, I also developed the wheel conversion parts for this car to make it look like a BTTF III car, and reproduced the parts for the Pepsi box, using my 3D printer, and old radio tubes and electronics from the 1950s.

I share this cars with people who come to Delorean Weekend to inspire them to maintain and upgrade their Delorean to "Live the Dream."

Over the years, I have admired all the work you did to develop Time Machine parts, especially with all the LED and PLC components that exist today. I was limited by TTL logic back in the 90s.

My Current "Dream Delorean" project is another attempt to share my experience with other D owners to update their cars. As JZD said to me back in Cleveland when studying my full size power windows. "You a damn good engineer. If I had had more people like you, I would still be in business."

I always remember him saying this to me, and continue to try to live up to his expectations.
I try not to get into the screen accuracy debates anymore, but you're right that it's something that is open for interpretation depending on which version (A, B, or C) a person is building. Some people interpret screen accuracy as literally what you see on the screen (including special effects & sounds) and some interpret it more along the lines of how accurate something is to the physical prop as it was constructed and not necessarily including some of the movie magic effects. I think the line is blurred somewhere between the two personally.

The infighting seems to have quieted down some in the BTTF builders community... I hope it can continue on a path where people are more freely able to share information without all the issues we've experienced in the past. The point of this thread was to try and share whatever I could while the restoration was still fresh in my memory.

It's pretty epic that you got the nod of approval from John Z on your roll down windows. I remember being just a kid and seeing pics of your car and thinking how awesome it was that you were able to re-engineer them the way you did.

It's also a cool story to hear about how Kevin Pike hooked you up with some of the old invoices for parts from the build. Is that something you'd be willing to share photos or scans of? At this point the collective community has figured out nearly every part on the car, but it would be really cool to see some of that old historical info.